English 9 Lesson 1 & 2 Vocabulary

Word Bank
amalgamate, antiquated, arable, beleaguer, camaraderie, caricature, dally, demented, desiccate, equanimity, felonious, frangible, gorge, hone, interminable, litany, lugubrious, moratorium, opiate, replete, truncate, ubiquitous, vernacular, wrenching, zealous

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Across

1. everyday language

5. a narcotic used to cause sleep or bring relief

9. fragile; easy to break

11. to sharpen

13. mentally ill; insane

15. tiresome and long; seemingly endless

19. composure; calmness

21. to besiege by encircling (as with an army)

23. pertaining to or constituting a major crime (prison time is more than a year)

24. causing mental or physical pain

25. fervent; fanatical

Down

2. rapport and goodwill

3. full; abundant

4. to shorten

6. suitable for cultivation of land

7. no longer used or useful; very old

8. an exaggerated portrayal of one's features

10. to combine

12. to waste time; to dawdle

14. a suspension of activity; an authorized delay

16. occurring or seeming to occur everywhere; omnipresent

17. any long, repetitive, or dull recital

18. mournful; gloomy

20. to dry out; to remove moisture

22. to eat or swallow greedily

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